Getting Pregnant

It was a hectic month. After we’d managed blood tests, his and hers ultrasounds, tube checking operations and even a post-coital check-up, we were ready to go back to Dr H and find out the good and bad news.

I was more than a little nervous that day, and spending a good hour or so waiting in the reception area didn’t help. Finally we got in to Dr H’s office and the long process began of him leafing through pages and pages of our tests results and explaining what it all meant for us. In general, we were boringly normal. Dr H told us what levels of hormones or other technical things he had hoped to find, and our results came back pretty much all on target. The interesting part was the Hycosy result which suggested my tubes may have been blocked.

But it wasn’t as simple as blocked tubes that are now clear. Dr H explained that it could have just been a spasm at that moment – or a spasming that often occurs. There was no way to tell if my tubes had always been blocked, were again now or not, and if not, whether they would block again. But, he was hopeful that perhaps a blockage had been cleared, so we were instructed to go away and keep trying with “timed intercourse” for three months. “Timed intercourse” means following the pink lines that appear on an ovulation test kit, and he did reassure me that those we had been buying in the supermarket were perfect for the job. So we went away to keep trying, with a slight bit of optimism.

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